Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-01
Tanned WhiskeV.

CHEMIST COMES no THE AID OF THE PROHIBITION
lists WITH NEW CREATION.
From the Evening Post
For several years New York chemist has been
experimenting with view to depriving alcoholic
liquors OF their intoxicating principle. According
10 this gentleman, the intoxicating principle Is
the ether, or combinations of ether, which remain
In alcohol even after the fusel Oil has been care
fully extracted; ether, in combination with GER
tain gums that give whisky and brandy their
CHARACTERISTIC 0ders and some OF their qualities
mas ST. never been eliminated heretofore without
wholly destroying the liquor as medicinal or eY-
niaratlng beverage. The process by which the
others or combinations of ether with the gums
which the inventor expects to be rewarded should
the process come into general use. None OF the
treated whisky has been offered for sale; as yet
the dlstlllerS look upon the invention with eX-
IRENE distrust, II not absolute enmity for IT, as
one dlStiller remarked. much OF this tanned whisky
should get into the market it might destroy the
reputation OF any quantity Of the real article it
would be enough TO disgust an Old topper with
whisky for life 10 discover that half bottle of 1t
beer; He would at once infer that nothing short
OF vitriol would be OF further use to him, or that
whisky distfllers had lost their cunning In either
case he would give up drinking whisky.
Inc inventor, though not a drinking man, pro-
feSSe5 TO have made this deetheriZed Whiskey an
almost constant beverage for several years, and to
nave experienced no i'll effects whatever. One
day last week he drank three-Quarters OF q quart
bottle, experiencing no other result than pleas
udll u RldSS1ul OF ordinary WIS
key would, he says have laid him out upon the
floor. The chemistry OF intoXicattOn according
TO many experiments with wh1skey before and
after this secret treatment is that in the ANALYSIS
TO which the whskey is submitted by the stomach
the ethers AFFECT the brain and are solely RESPONSE
Die for dizziness and tntoXtcation, while the food
material In the alcohol goes to enrich the blood
and stimulate the body with rapidity unequalled
In the case Of solid food. After many months OF
careful experiment the inventor also believes that
MS harmless Wh1Skey retains every particle of the
material which is OF value in whiskey or brandy.
as medicinal agent, and he processes to have
made some remarkable cures by means OF deether-
tied whiskey; long standing case Of chills and
FEVER was cured by liberal doses after every other
covery he has done great work for the prohibi-
t1OnSts, 1nasmuch as wh1skey after such treatment
may DE regarded az nothing more or less than food
Of q highly nutritious and valuable kind, and
under this belief he has attempted to obtain the
appreciation OF the leading prohibition advocates.
Unfortunately, he does not seem to have been sue
cessful. He says that the Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby
treated him "like Niger" and seemed to take
his visit and his bottle OF whisky personal in
warmth to the chemists, and said that he had
nothing 10 40 with the scientific aspects of the
question With other lights OF the temperance
other hand, the liquor dealers whom he asked
to test his whisky were unanimous in de-
nouncing it as fraud. AS whisky 1t was not
worth five cents gallon after de-etherzation,
whatever value 1t might have as a temperance
drink, and one prominent expert In liquors
declared TO the inventor that no LIQUOR dealer
In the city would dream OF placing the stuff before
his patrons, first, because the patrons wanted 10
wanted them TO do so. No more indignant assem-
bly, could be imagined than the social circle any
OF our grog shops attempting New Years cele-
whisky faster who was asked for his professional
opinion upon the merits Of the stuff as q drink
said that 1t had no merits; it had lost its 'bite'
and any whisky drinker before whom a bottle OF
such stun was placed would be Justified in throw
ing the bottle at the bartender
Altogether the prospects Of introducing tanned
whisky as an article OF commerce not brilliant
and the inventor confesses that no capitalists
have appeared ready to manufacture the article
upon large scale. The process is cheap, and
would not appreclably increase the cost OF alcO-
hole liquors; the elimination OF the others in
whisky would amount TO about i've per cent OF the
alcohol contained therein.